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It is more than one year that I work with IoT and honestly I don't have understood the google offert. I had the pleasure to work with IoT and the Lora protocol

It is more than one year that I work with IoT and honestly I don't have understood the google offert. I had the pleasure to work with IoT and the Lora protocol writing and managing a Lora network server, the piece of software that takes Lora messages send through radio and decode them from radio -> udp -> MQTT (encrypted) -> MQTT (clear) [shameless plug, I packed my experience in an on-premises service: http://loranetworkserver.com/ http://loranetworkserver.com/ ] The difficult part I believe is this one, after you got the MQTT message in clear what you do with it is quite simple, straightforward and overall a solved problem (unless you are not getting millions of messages per seconds, but very few businesses have such load). From what I understood from the google page they are solving the simpler problem of getting the data from an MQTT message and save it to disk, and maybe use later for data mining. It is weird because I wouldn't accept to have my data saved in someone else disk, at the bare minimum I would require to have the data duplicated in some standard (pg, MySQL, mongo) db (even a db managed by AWS or Google, but a standard one that I can move at will). It doesn't seems the most valuable piece of architecture that they could develop.

petra 9y ago
The real valueble piece would be probably something up the stack, maybe similar to the great offering of thingworx, but better. But that would mean competing with partners , so it has its own issues. Maybe by focusing on something like authentication , and offering Google branded security , they could both achieve some lock-in in and not scare partners ?
- iot_devs 9y ago
  My point of view is quite local, however I don't see any of the company I work with having their data only on Google or AWS without a very clear way to get it out. Honestly I see IoT a lot like Machine Learning, everybody is talking about it, everybody want to be part of the game, but there is not a clear solution. Businesses have very specific use cases that require some, not trivial, understanding of the technology, to be fulfilled in full. Even more to actually use the data gathered. For the foreseeable future I see the need to a quite senior figure to enable IoT in businesses. Once a senior figure has such data in clear, a way to mine value out of that data I see at least unlikely that she is going to push all of that only on google only to fetch then back once you need to do your visualization or analysis. Maybe if you are completely sold to the google ecosystem, it may make sense, but still...

petra 9y ago

The real valueble piece would be probably something up the stack, maybe similar to the great offering of thingworx, but better. But that would mean competing with partners , so it has its own issues. Maybe by focusing on something like authentication , and offering Google branded security , they could both achieve some lock-in in and not scare partners ?

iot_devs 9y ago
My point of view is quite local, however I don't see any of the company I work with having their data only on Google or AWS without a very clear way to get it out. Honestly I see IoT a lot like Machine Learning, everybody is talking about it, everybody want to be part of the game, but there is not a clear solution. Businesses have very specific use cases that require some, not trivial, understanding of the technology, to be fulfilled in full. Even more to actually use the data gathered. For the foreseeable future I see the need to a quite senior figure to enable IoT in businesses. Once a senior figure has such data in clear, a way to mine value out of that data I see at least unlikely that she is going to push all of that only on google only to fetch then back once you need to do your visualization or analysis. Maybe if you are completely sold to the google ecosystem, it may make sense, but still...